Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo
Awarded forquality classic vocal solos
CountryUnited States
Presented byNational Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
First awarded1959
Currently held byRenée Fleming (soloist) and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) - Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene (2023)
Websitegrammy.com

The Grammy AwardBest Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time:

  • From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with or without orchestra)
  • In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist
  • In 1965 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
  • In 1966, 1968 and from 1971 to 1990 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance
  • In 1967 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance (with or without orchestra)
  • In 1969 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance
  • In 1970 it was awarded as Best Vocal Soloist Performance, Classical
  • In 1991 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
  • In 1992 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Soloist
  • From 1993 to 2011 it returned to being awarded as Best Classical Vocal Performance
  • From 2012 to 2014 it was awarded as Best Classical Vocal Solo
  • From 2015 the award has been known as Best Classical Solo Vocal Album and is open for albums only (in previous years single tracks were also eligible for the award, although in most cases the awards and nominations went to albums)

Up to and including 2015, the Grammy was awarded to one or more vocal soloist(s). Accompanying musicians, orchestras and/or conductors were not eligible for the award. From 2016, "collaborative artists" (such as solo accompanists, conductors or chamber groups) have also been included. Accompanying large orchestras or multiple instrumentalists, however, remain ineligible. Producer(s) and engineer(s) of over 50% of playing time on the recording also receive an award.

Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

Recipients

Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi was the first recipient of the award.
1960 winner, Jussi Björling.
Thirteen-time winner Leontyne Price.
Two-time winner Joan Sutherland.
1969 winner, Montserrat Caballé.
Two-time winner Janet Baker.
Five-time winner Luciano Pavarotti.
Two-time winner Marilyn Horne.
Three-time winner Kathleen Battle.
Five-time winner Cecilia Bartoli.
Three-time winner Anne Sofie von Otter.
Four-time winner Renée Fleming.
Year Recipients(s) Work Nominees Ref.
1959 Renata Tebaldi Operatic Recital
1960 Jussi Björling Bjoerling in Opera
1961 Leontyne Price A Program of Song - Leontyne Price Recital
1962 Joan Sutherland The Art of the Prima Donna
  • Bach: Cantasas Nos. 58 and 202 (Bach Aria Group Orchestra)
  • Leontyne Price - Operatic Arias (Rome Opera House Orchestra)
  • Victoria de los AngelesThe Fabulous Victoria de los Angeles
  • Trimble: Four Fragments from The Canterbury Tales (Conant, Russo, Orenstein)
1963 Eileen Farrell Götterdämmerung - Brünnhilde's Immolation Scene/Wesendonck Songs
1964 Leontyne Price Great Scenes From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
1965 Leontyne Price Berlioz: Nuits d'Ete (Song Cycle)/Falla: El Amor Brujo
1966 Leontyne Price Strauss: Salome (Dance of the Seven Veils, Interlude, Final Scene)/The Egyptian Helen (Awakening Scene)
1967 Leontyne Price Prima Donna (Works of Barber, Purcell, etc.)
1968 Leontyne Price Prima Donna, Volume 2
1969 Montserrat Caballé Rossini: Rarities
1970 Leontyne Price Barber: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915
1971 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Schubert: Lieder
1972 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Robert Schumann
1973 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Brahms: Die Schone Magelone
1974 Leontyne Price Puccini: Heroines
1975 Leontyne Price Leontyne Price Sings Richard Strauss
1976 Janet Baker Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
1977 Beverly Sills Herbert: Music of Victor Herbert
1978 Janet Baker Bach: Arias
1979 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti - Hits From Lincoln Center
1980 Luciano Pavarotti O Sole Mio - Favorite Neapolitan Songs
1981 Leontyne Price Prima Donna, Vol. 5 - Great Soprano Arias From Handel to Britten
1982 Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland Live From Lincoln Center - Sutherland/Horne/Pavarotti
1983 Leontyne Price Verdi: Arias (Leontyne Price Sings Verdi)
1984 Marilyn Horne and Leontyne Price Leontyne Price & Marilyn Horne in Concert at the Met
1985 Heather Harper, Jessye Norman & José van Dam Ravel: Songs of Maurice Ravel
1986 John Aler Berlioz: Requiem
1987 Kathleen Battle Kathleen Battle Sings Mozart
1988 Kathleen Battle Kathleen Battle - Salzburg Recital
  • Elly AmelingSoiree Francaise (Debussy, Faure, Poulenc, Franck, Canteloube, Roussel, Chausson, Messiaen, etc.)
  • Arleen AugerVilla-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for Soprano and Orchestra of Violoncellos
  • Marni NixonCopland: 8 Poems of Emily Dickinson
  • Jessye NormanR. Strauss: Lieder (Including Malven)
1989 Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti in Concert
1990 Dawn Upshaw Knoxville - Summer of 1915 (Music of Barber, Menotti, Harbison, Stravinsky)
1991 José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti in Concert
1992 Dawn Upshaw The Girl With Orange Lips (Falla, Ravel, etc.)
1993 Kathleen Battle & Margo Garrett Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, etc.)
1994 Arleen Auger The Art of Arleen Auger (Works of Larsen, Purcell, Schumann, Mozart)
1995 Cecilia Bartoli The Impatient Lover - Italian Songs by Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart
  • Dmitri HvorostovskySongs and Dances of Death (Works of Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Borodin, etc.)
  • Peter SchreierMendelssohn: Lieder (Der Mond; Reiselied, etc.)
  • Bryn TerfelAn Die Musik - Favorite Schubert Songs (Die Forelle; An Die Leier, etc.)
  • Anne Sofie von OtterLove's Twilight - Late Romantic Songs by Berg, Korngold, R. Strauss

1996 Sylvia McNair The Echoing Air - The Music of Henry Purcell
1997 Bryn Terfel Opera Arias - Works of Mozart, Wagner, Borodin
1998 Cecilia Bartoli An Italian Songbook (Works of Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini)
1999 Renée Fleming The Beautiful Voice (Works of Charpentier, Gounod etc.)
2000 Anne Sofie von Otter & Thomas Quasthoff Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
2001 Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) The Vivaldi Album (Dell'aura al sussurrar; Alma oppressa, etc.)
2002 Cecilia Bartoli (artist), Jonathan Stokes (engineer), Christopher Raeburn (producer) Dreams & Fables - Gluck Italian Arias (Tremo Gra' Fubbi Miei; Die Questa Cetra In Seno, etc.)
2003 Renée Fleming (artist), Jonathan Stokes, Neil Hutchinson & Tom Lazarus (engineers), Erik Smith (producer) Bel Canto (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, etc.)
2004 Thomas Quasthoff & Anne Sofie von Otter (soloists), Jürgen Bulgrin & Oliver Rogalla Von Heyden (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) Schubert: Lieder with Orchestra
2005 Susan Graham Ives: Songs (The Things Our Fathers Loved; the Housatonic at Stockbridge, etc.)
2006 Thomas Quasthoff (soloist), Jürgen Bulgrin & Rainer Maillard (engineers), Christopher Alder (producer) Bach: Cantatas
2007 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Rilke Songs
2008 Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soloist), John Newton & Mark Donahue (engineers), Dirk Sobotka (producer) Lorraine Hunt Lieberson Sings Peter Lieberson: Neruda Songs
2009 Hila Plitmann (soloist), John Corigliano, Tim Handley & Tom Lazarus (engineers), John Corigliano & Tim Handley (producers) Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan
2010 Renee Fleming Verismo
2011 Cecilia Bartoli Sacrificium
2012 Joyce DiDonato Diva Divo
2013 Renee Fleming Poèmes
2014 Dawn Upshaw Winter Morning Walks
2015 Anne Sofie von Otter Douce France
2016 Joyce DiDonato (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) Joyce & Tony - Live From Wigmore Hall
2017 Dorothea Röschmann (soloist), Mitsuko Uchida (accompanist) Schumann & Berg
Ian Bostridge (soloist), Antonio Pappano (accompanist) Shakespeare Songs
2018 Barbara Hannigan Crazy Girl Crazy - Music by Gershwin, Berg & Berio
2019 Karim Sulayman (soloist); Apollo's Fire (ensemble) Songs of Orpheus - Monteverdi, Caccini, D'India & Landi
2020 Joyce DiDonato (soloist); Chuck Israels, Jimmy Madison, Charlie Porter & Craig Terry (accompanists) Songplay
2021 Sarah Brailey & Dashon Burton (soloists); James Blachly (conductor) Smyth: The Prison
 · (Experimental Chorus & Experimental Orchestra)
  • Stephen Powell (main artist); William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Lori Laitman, John Musto, Charles Neidich, Jason Vieaux & the Attaca Quartet (accompanists) – American Composers At Play
  • Nicholas Phan (soloist); Myra Huang (accompanist) – Clairères - Songs by Lili & Nadia Boulanger
  • Brian Giebler (soloist); Steven McGhee (accompanist) – A Lad's Love
  • Cecilia Bartoli (soloist); Giovanni Antonini (conductor) – Farinelli
2022 Sangeeta Kaur & Hilla Plitmann (soloists); Danae Xanthe Vlasse (piano) Mythologies
2023 Renée Fleming (soloist) & Yannick Nézet-Séguin (accompanist) Voice of Nature - The Anthropocene
2024 Julia Bullock (soloist); Christian Reif (conductor) Walking in the Dark

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